This
guy heard about the cops, raced to them, and literally hopped into the
squad car in eagerness ~ such idiocy certainly would lower drug users a few more notches in the eyes of these agents. Drug crazed, ready to sell their souls for a hit of whatever.
By Alexander Higgings
theintelhub.com
May 4, 2012
Police
in Minnesota have been caught on video picking up teenagers, doing drug experiments
on them, and then dropping them off at the local Occupy protest to discredit
the movement.
It’s the CIA’s famed MK Ultra mind control drug program all over
again but this time the drug experiments are being conducted on teenage
volunteers who are apparently then being dropped off at the local Occupy
protests.
Reddirt Reports:
DRUG-DEALING COPS USING OCCUPY
PROTESTERS
AS TEST SUBJECTS, SNITCHES?
AS TEST SUBJECTS, SNITCHES?
By Andrew W. Griffin
Red Dirt Report, editor
Posted: May 2, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY
ED: When I was young and foolish, I participated in a government-sponsored marijuana experiment. For three months a group of women lived in a highly controlled environment and smoked super quality weed. Twice a day we were forced (unless ill) to sit down for 20 minutes to lower our heart rates, then our pulses taken multiple times during each session, etc. We had to smoke, per session, two marijuana cigarettes. I say cigarette nod joint or whatever because these were professionally rolled just like regular cigarettes. 24/7 we were observed at whatever we were doing ~ the complete surveillance society. Every 20 minutes someone came around and made note of activity, companionship, mood and whatever else. These studies were for the LeDain Commission. BTW the pot grown in Canada by the RCMP was stolen; we used pot from Mississippi instead. And it was mighty fine if I remember correctly. These police sound like fools!
In what strikes this reporter as highly unethical and likely
illegal, police officers, highway patrol troopers and sheriff’s deputies from
across Minnesota have been allegedly preying on drug-impaired youths, getting
them high and observing their reactions, not unlike laboratory rats.
Norman-based blogger Kaye Beach, with Axxiom for Liberty, informed Red Dirt Report about this
disturbing program and that similar activities may be taking place here in
Oklahoma.
RogueMedia.org, with help
from Twin Cities Indymedia, Communities United Against
Police Brutality and Occupy
Minneapolis, reported that their
undercover investigation, revealed shocking stories of cops offering young
people drugs and taken to a secret state-owned warehouse where vast amounts of
drugs were consumed by the young test subjects under the watchful eyes of
interested police. The activists also witnessed, in Minneapolis’ Peavey Plaza,
“police dropping off impaired people” where Occupy Minneapolis congregates.
This appears to be part of a new “innovative training program”
for police which allows them to become Drug Recognition Experts (DRE’s) and
that those recruited for the tests would be already “drug-impaired.” As this
activist video shows, several were not impaired and simply jumped at the chance
of free drugs and a free meal, only to be dropped off back at the plaza in a
drug-impaired state.
It would appear that this program only proves what a joke the
“drug war” really is, when the cops are encouraging young people to take drugs
so they can become drug-recognition experts.
Continuing, in the video it notes that the young people are
offered free drugs, taken to a Minnesota Department of Transportation warehouse
near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and observed as they
ingest copious amounts of illegal drugs, primarily marijuana.
Interviewing different young people who took part in the “drug
tests,” they discovered that no EMT’s or ambulances were on site.
“I got stoned with a couple of cops,” says one young man
identified as ‘Panda.’ “I’m high as f***.
Panda explained he was at the local Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis
when he was told the police were “doing research” to find out “how people
react” under the influence of narcotics. And when the cops offered Panda to
take part in the human experiment, he agreed.
Asked by the activist if it was “high-grade weed,” Panda
replies: “Dude, this is some of the best s*** I’ve had in a while. Now I know
what happens to the stuff they confiscate.”
Afterward, they bought the young drug user a double cheeseburger
dinner at a McDonald’s. They monitored how fast they ate his meal so they could
see if he had the “munchies.”
Panda also said that the cops knew he was deeply involved in the
local Occupy Wall Street activist movement and they asked him to inform on other
Occupiers.
Panda claims he was asked to participate some other time in the
future, and Panda said “one day” he would consider it.
Another human subject, a young man, said his blood pressure was
checked and that at the warehouse there were upwards of 30 cops on site. The
Minnesota State Patrol website says these tests on human guinea pigs are part
of certification training “where they perform 12 evaluations on drug-impaired
subjects” to better train cops for field-sobriety tests and so forth. Certification
training takes two-to-three weeks, according to the RogueMedia.org story.
Back to their video, another guy, who wanted heroin, said the
cops gave him a big bag of weed to smoke.
Of concern is that these test subjects return to the plaza in an
impaired condition and could endanger themselves or others in public gathering
spaces, such as Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis.
The video notes that Minnesota’s DRE state coordinator is
Riccardo Munoz, with the Minnesota State Patrol in St. Paul. He is part of the
International Drug Evaluation & Classification Program.
RogueMedia.org notes that “the DRE program, run by the Minnesota
State Patrol, has no Institutional Review Board or independent oversight. It is
also suspected that the Minneapolis City Council is secretly working with law
enforcement to “discredit and disrupt the Occupy movement.”
Roque Media reports:
MK OCCUPY MINNESOTA: DRUGS
& THE DRE PROGRAM AT PEAVEY PLAZA
& THE DRE PROGRAM AT PEAVEY PLAZA
Video documentation [shown below] by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit drugs and provided other incentives to take the drugs. The Occupy movement, present at Peavey Plaza since April 7th, appears to be targeted as impaired people are dropped off at the Plaza, and others say they’ve been rewarded for offering to snitch on the movement.
Local independent media activists and members of Communities
United Against Police Brutality began investigating police conduct around the Plaza
after witnessing police dropping off impaired people at the plaza and hearing
rumors that they were offering people drugs. We videotaped police conduct
and interviewed participants, learning some very disturbing information about
the DRE program.
Officers stated on record the DRE program, run by the Minnesota
State Patrol, has no Institutional Review Board or independent oversight. They
agreed no ambulances or EMTs were on site at the Richfield MnDOT facility near
the airport where most subjects were taken. Multiple times, participants left
Peavey Plaza sober, returned intoxicated, and said they’d been given free drugs
by law enforcement. We documented on more than one occasion, someone being told
they were sober by one officer, and then picked up by a different officer, and
returning intoxicated.
Last May, WCCO reported DRE as an innovative training program
for law enforcement agents in which they recruited individuals who were already
impaired on drugs to test and observe the effects of those drugs
minnesota.cbslocal.com. This program, which trains Drug Recognition Experts
(DRE) was portrayed in glowing terms and the article emphasized the subjects
recruited were already drug-impaired.
On its website, the State Patrol provides this training description:
“DRE training consists of nine days of classroom work, where officers learn
about specific drug categories, physiology, and enhance their SFST
[standardized field sobriety testing] skills. Following the classroom training,
DRE candidates must complete certification training, where they perform 12
evaluations on drug-impaired subjects. These evaluations will be monitored and
verified by DRE instructors and the BCA Lab. Certification training generally
takes 2–3 weeks.”
Given the dangers of impaired driving, there is value in
training law enforcement officers to distinguish between the effects of various
drugs and several common medical conditions. However, we have captured video
footage of instances in which DRE trainees recruited subjects who are not
already impaired, and those participants say they were given drugs by the
officers.
Although program documents indicate that participants must sign
a waiver, dps.mn.gov there was no indication from any of
the participants interviewed that a waiver was offered or obtained. Further,
video footage seems to validate the recollections of participants that no
medical personnel or ambulance were on site during the observation and testing
in Richfield.
A DRE officer told one of our investigators that no
Institutional Review Board assessment of the program has been made, a
requirement of all experiments involving human subjects. Since it’s unethical
to encourage people to take drugs–whether by giving them drugs directly or
enticing them with food, cigarettes, or other rewards (which participants say
they were given) ~ it is unlikely such a program would pass IRB review as it
endangers the test subjects.
According to the WCCO article, officer trainees in the past have
worked with various non-profit organizations to recruit drug users. It would
appear now that they are no longer relying solely on this tactic, instead
recruiting users directly and, participants say, providing them with drugs.
After the sessions, these individuals are then dropped off in public areas
without supportive care, creating a public safety hazard.
In an example at Peavey Plaza caught on film, an individual who
said he’s been smoking courtesy of the police for an hour, crossed a line of
Minneapolis police barricades, climbed to the top of a large sign and sat 15
feet above the sidewalk swinging his arms and legs in front of a police camera.
Our investigation points to particular efforts to target and
recruit youth. Further, law enforcement officers have been taped recruiting
people from the Peavey Plaza area of Nicollet Mall and have dropped off a
number of impaired individuals at Peavey Plaza. In some instances, Minneapolis
police squad cars were present while DRE trainees recruited people at Peavey
Plaza.
After receiving drugs, some subjects were asked to snitch on the
Occupy movement or asked about various people and activities of Occupy, they
said. Given efforts by the Minneapolis city council to pass an ordinance
designed to restrict access to Peavey Plaza by the Occupy movement, the conduct
of DRE trainees points to the possibility that they are working hand-in-glove
with Minneapolis police to discredit and disrupt the Occupy movement.
“I think most people would be very surprised to have our tax dollars used to get people high,” states Michelle Gross, president of Communities United Against Police Brutality. “These activities call into question the methods and motives of this DRE training.”
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